The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.